Revamped Google Maps App Aims to Give Users More Content

Google Overhauled its Maps App so It Focuses More on What You Want to Do

By

Katherine Boehret

Updated July 16, 2013 8:18 p.m. ET

The revamped Google Maps app still gets you from point A to point B, but now it is aiming to give people much more along the way.

The company overhauled its app in a way that focuses more intuitively on categories of what you want to do, like Eat, Drink, Shop, Play and Sleep. It has a smart way of encouraging discoveries within these categories that made even me—someone who avoided the discovery features in Google Maps—want to use...